We are probaby days away from a nuclear exchange. Putin has moved his family...

bannnnnned i got wrote:

justfactsplease wrote:

Where are you even getting this information? There are two problems with this post: 1) Putin doesn't really have family. He has an ex-wife and two adult children with whom he is not close. Additionally, his adult children's lives are shrouded in secrecy and they do not use the family name Putin so as not to be identified. Even if he had moved them to a bunker in Siberia, we would not know. 2) We are not days away from nuclear war. And if we were, the US has numerous missile defense systems, such as THAAD, which would mitigate most, if not all the nuclear risk in both the United States and abroad.

I suggest you do some research before you sensationalize the situation. One source I recommend utilizing is Arms Control Wonk - regular updates can be found on Twitter with cited sources, as well as a research sound podcast.

again more media fluff.....THAAD blah blah blah

russia has RS-28 Sarmat, aka SATAN 2, which US and NATO have nothing that can stop it

The RS-28 Sarmat will be capable of carrying about 10 tonnes of payload for either up to 10 heavy or 15 light MIRV warheads,[28] an unspecified number of Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs)[29] or a combination of warheads and several countermeasures against anti-ballistic missile systems.[30][31] The Russian ministry of Defense said that the missile is Russia's response to the U.S. Prompt Global Strike system.[16]
Sarmat has a short boost phase, which shortens the interval when it can be tracked by satellites with infrared sensors, such as the U.S. Space-Based Infrared System, making it more difficult to intercept.[32][33][34][35] It is speculated that the Sarmat could fly a trajectory over the South Pole, completely immune to any current missile defense system,[33] and that it has the Fractional Orbital Bombardment (FOBS) capability.[10]
According to various sources, RS-28's launch sites are to be equipped with the "Mozyr"[36] active protection system, designed to negate potential adversary's first strike advantage by kinetically destroying incoming bombs, cruise missiles and ICBM warheads at altitudes of up to 6 km.[37][38][39][40][41]

how many SATAN 2's does russia have? i mean 10-15 war heads can go independatnly to 10-15 cities in a 6200 mile radius from wherever it is launched from....so say he launches 2 of them? thats 20-30 warheads....

then all this talk about fall out etc, they can detonate at high altitude giving a large EMP burst wiping out the grid over a HUGE area, then launch non nuclear ICBMs. or do a surface detonation and wipe out the city but have very limited fall out. people still live in Hiroshima, so stop this media narrative that a nuclear blast will end humanity. yes lots will die and radiation will poison for a few months, but that wont worry putin as he is in europe.

im not worried, im not some fearmonger or warmonger, US and NATO have no balls and russia will keep advancing without ever dropping a nuke, and if it does it will be 2, one to hit france the other germany or UK and boom white flags in europe will come up and a new cold war stand off will begin

Precious Roy wrote:

If Putin went Nuclear, he would probably nuke some US military bases in Europe and not go and nuke London, DC, NY, etc. First, Putin and his oligarchs probably own a lot of property in major Western cities. They would also want to have a limited strike in order to avoid having a cloud of radiation cause fallout all over Russia. Russia was pretty lucky that the fallout from Chernobyl did not make a b-line for Moscow. But strikes on NATO assets in Poland, Turkey, Germany, etc. could rain radioactive fallout over Russia proper if they really used some big nukes. And the Russians aren't dumb. They know about nuclear winter and don't want to end life on Earth.

If Putin is moving family around, is because he fears that Russians may try to take him out or use his family as hostages to get him to stop the war and negotiate an end to sanctions. Oligarchs and Russian businesses are starting to feel the heat and are gradually turning on Putin. Lukoil came out with a statement distancing itself from the war. That is pretty amazing considering that they are the second biggest oil company in Russia.

Let's really get to the bottom of this wrote:

bannnnnned i got wrote:

again more media fluff.....THAAD blah blah blah

russia has RS-28 Sarmat, aka SATAN 2, which US and NATO have nothing that can stop it

The RS-28 Sarmat will be capable of carrying about 10 tonnes of payload for either up to 10 heavy or 15 light MIRV warheads,[28] an unspecified number of Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs)[29] or a combination of warheads and several countermeasures against anti-ballistic missile systems.[30][31] The Russian ministry of Defense said that the missile is Russia's response to the U.S. Prompt Global Strike system.[16]
Sarmat has a short boost phase, which shortens the interval when it can be tracked by satellites with infrared sensors, such as the U.S. Space-Based Infrared System, making it more difficult to intercept.[32][33][34][35] It is speculated that the Sarmat could fly a trajectory over the South Pole, completely immune to any current missile defense system,[33] and that it has the Fractional Orbital Bombardment (FOBS) capability.[10]
According to various sources, RS-28's launch sites are to be equipped with the "Mozyr"[36] active protection system, designed to negate potential adversary's first strike advantage by kinetically destroying incoming bombs, cruise missiles and ICBM warheads at altitudes of up to 6 km.[37][38][39][40][41]

how many SATAN 2's does russia have? i mean 10-15 war heads can go independatnly to 10-15 cities in a 6200 mile radius from wherever it is launched from....so say he launches 2 of them? thats 20-30 warheads....

then all this talk about fall out etc, they can detonate at high altitude giving a large EMP burst wiping out the grid over a HUGE area, then launch non nuclear ICBMs. or do a surface detonation and wipe out the city but have very limited fall out. people still live in Hiroshima, so stop this media narrative that a nuclear blast will end humanity. yes lots will die and radiation will poison for a few months, but that wont worry putin as he is in europe.

im not worried, im not some fearmonger or warmonger, US and NATO have no balls and russia will keep advancing without ever dropping a nuke, and if it does it will be 2, one to hit france the other germany or UK and boom white flags in europe will come up and a new cold war stand off will begin

You're misguided on some of this & not up to date on the U.S. ballistic missile defense systems. "THAAD" is the Army's defense system & is reliable but the Navy's Aegis ballistic missile defense system is the best in the world. Aegis can take down any Russian ICBM including their 2nd gen Satan 2.

Video:youtu.be/ZQYxLlK9xwg

In addition, the U.S. has anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) that would take down the Russian military satellites with ease neutralizing & destroying their missle guidance system capabilities.

WW3 is not imminent.